Strategy: [Unscrambling]- it teaches students how to arrange sentence parts effectively.
Activity 2 Practice 1
1.) When fate hands you a lemon/ try to make lemonade
2.) Even if it’s a little thing/ do something for others/ something for which you get no pay/ but the privilege of doing it.
3.) The best way to cheer yourself up/ is to try to cheer somebody else up.
4.) As sentence should contain no unnecessary words/ a paragraph no unnecessary sentences/ for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines/ and a machine no unnecessary parts.
5.) Always be nice to people on the way up/ because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.
6.) When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform/ always do the most disagreeable first.
7.) Keep five yards from a carriage/ ten yards from a horse/ and a hundred yards from an elephants/ but the distance you should keep from a wicked person/ cannot be measured.
8.) Ask not what your country can do for you/ but ask what you can do for your country.
9.) You make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people/ than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
10.)If you wish to rest/ first work.
Activity 2 Practice 2
1. A politician thinks of the next election/ a statesman of the next generation.
a) A politician thinks of the next election, while a statesman thinks of the next generation.
2. A politician is an animal/ who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
b) A politician is an animal, who can sit on a fence, and yet keep both ears to the ground.
3. It is of great importance in a republic/ not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers/ but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
c) It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
4. In a free country/ there is much clamor with little suffering/ in a despotic state/ there is little complaint with much grievance.
d) In a free country, there is much clamor with little suffering. In a despotic state, there is little complaint with much grievance
5. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not/ for themselves and under a just God/ cannot long retain it.
e) Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not. For themselves and under a just God cannot retain it.
6. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself/ than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
f) I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
7. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead/ either write things worth reading/ or do things worth writing.
g) If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead; either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
8. If you want to get along/go along.
h) If you want to get along, go along.
9. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow/ because delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
i) Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, because delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
10. To do anything in this world worth doing/ you must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger/ but jump in and scramble through as well as you can.
j) To do anything in this world worth doing, you must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger; but jump in and scramble through as well as you can.
Activity 5
1. The rear of the car lifted up into the air for a moment, and then it thumped down with a muddy splash.
2. Then it moved around the side of the car.
3. At the back the animal snorted, a deep rumbling growl that blended with the thunder.
4. The big raised tail blocked their view out of all the side windows.
5. It sank its jaws into the spare tire in a single head shake, tore it away and, mounted on the back of the Land Cruiser.
*It sank its jaws into the spare tire in a single head shake. It tore it away, and mounted on the back of the Land Cruiser. The big raised tail blocked their view out of all the side windows. At the back, the animal snorted a deep rumbling growl that blended in with the thunder. Then it moved around the side of the car; and finally the rear of the car lifted up into the air for a moment, and then it thumped down with a muddy splash.
1. It was the work of the rushing gust-but then without those doors, there did stand the lofty and shrouded figure of the Lady Madeline of Usher.
2. There was blood upon every portion of her emaciated frame, upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle.
3. As if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws threw slowly back
4. For a moment she remained trembling and reeling and in her violent and now final death-agonies fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and a victim to the terrors bore him to the floor he had anticipated then, with a low, moaning cry, fell heavily inward bore him to the floor a corpse?
ECI 430/ MSL-FL12
Killgallon’s Sentence Composing Strategies
Strategy: [Unscrambling]- it teaches students how to arrange sentence parts effectively.
Activity 2 Practice 1
1.) When fate hands you a lemon/ try to make lemonade
2.) Even if it’s a little thing/ do something for others/ something for which you get no pay/ but the privilege of doing it.
3.) The best way to cheer yourself up/ is to try to cheer somebody else up.
4.) As sentence should contain no unnecessary words/ a paragraph no unnecessary sentences/ for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines/ and a machine no unnecessary parts.
5.) Always be nice to people on the way up/ because you’ll meet the same people on the way down.
6.) When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform/ always do the most disagreeable first.
7.) Keep five yards from a carriage/ ten yards from a horse/ and a hundred yards from an elephants/ but the distance you should keep from a wicked person/ cannot be measured.
8.) Ask not what your country can do for you/ but ask what you can do for your country.
9.) You make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people/ than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
10.)If you wish to rest/ first work.
Activity 2 Practice 2
- 1. A politician thinks of the next election/ a statesman of the next generation.
a) A politician thinks of the next election, while a statesman thinks of the next generation.- 2. A politician is an animal/ who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
b) A politician is an animal, who can sit on a fence, and yet keep both ears to the ground.- 3. It is of great importance in a republic/ not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers/ but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
c) It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.- 4. In a free country/ there is much clamor with little suffering/ in a despotic state/ there is little complaint with much grievance.
d) In a free country, there is much clamor with little suffering. In a despotic state, there is little complaint with much grievance- 5. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not/ for themselves and under a just God/ cannot long retain it.
e) Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not. For themselves and under a just God cannot retain it.- 6. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself/ than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
f) I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.- 7. If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead/ either write things worth reading/ or do things worth writing.
g) If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead; either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.- 8. If you want to get along/go along.
h) If you want to get along, go along.- 9. Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow/ because delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
i) Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, because delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.- 10. To do anything in this world worth doing/ you must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger/ but jump in and scramble through as well as you can.
j) To do anything in this world worth doing, you must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger; but jump in and scramble through as well as you can.Activity 5
- 1. The rear of the car lifted up into the air for a moment, and then it thumped down with a muddy splash.
- 2. Then it moved around the side of the car.
- 3. At the back the animal snorted, a deep rumbling growl that blended with the thunder.
- 4. The big raised tail blocked their view out of all the side windows.
- 5. It sank its jaws into the spare tire in a single head shake, tore it away and, mounted on the back of the Land Cruiser.
*It sank its jaws into the spare tire in a single head shake. It tore it away, and mounted on the back of the Land Cruiser. The big raised tail blocked their view out of all the side windows. At the back, the animal snorted a deep rumbling growl that blended in with the thunder. Then it moved around the side of the car; and finally the rear of the car lifted up into the air for a moment, and then it thumped down with a muddy splash.1. It was the work of the rushing gust-but then without those doors, there did stand the lofty and shrouded figure of the Lady Madeline of Usher.
2. There was blood upon every portion of her emaciated frame, upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter struggle.
3. As if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws threw slowly back
4. For a moment she remained trembling and reeling and in her violent and now final death-agonies fell heavily inward upon the person of her brother, and a victim to the terrors bore him to the floor he had anticipated then, with a low, moaning cry, fell heavily inward bore him to the floor a corpse?